crime

As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has allowed the executions of 238 people, including at least one, Cameron Todd Willingham, who may have been innocent. Still, Perry’s record of clemency is more generous than Mitt Romney’s. As governor of Massachusetts, Romney refused to grant a single pardon. Among the pardon applicants Romney denied was a decorated veteran of the Iraq War whose only offense — at age 13 — was shooting another child with a BB gun.
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Gov. Rick Perry fiercely defended capital punishment in Texas before a seemingly pro-death penalty crowd whose applause interrupted a discussion of the state’s executions during the governor’s first Republican debate. With a don’t-mess-with-Texas attitude, Perry did not waiver on his record and threatened the “ultimate justice” to criminals who commit murder in the state. From […]
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